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Syndicated shows produced at local stations

There was also "Peppermint Place", a local children's show from WFAA Dallas that went into national syndication sometime in the '80s.

And the new name for The Studios at KTLA Formerly Known as Tribune Studios? Sunset Bronson Studios.

Jonathan Allen
 
Forgot one other nationally syndicated show that was produced locally: The '90s teen magazine show "Scratch" from KXTV Sacramento!
 
"Good Morning", later "Good Day!" was produced by WCVB-TV/5 in Boston and was syndicated by Syndicast during the 1976-1977 season. The first 30 minutes of the 90 minute Boston show was aired in 100 markets including New York's WPIX/11.
 
Everybody has forgotten the most famous one
of all: "Hee Haw," taped for most of its run at
WLAC (now WTVF) Nashville.

Somebody mentioned Buddy Starcher (whom I
never saw), but most of us in the South got "The
Arthur Smith Show," another country-music show,
this one taped in Charlotte, first at WBTV, then at
WSOC.

"Midwestern Hayride" and "The Paul Dixon Show"
were syndicated out of WLWT Cincinnati (I remember
"Hayride" airing in Norfolk in 1966-67, and Dixon airing
in Tampa in 1973, just before he died). Bob Braun had
a chance to put his show into national syndication but he
didn't want to give up the use of local and regional talent,
so his show was seen mostly in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana,
West Virginia, and Tennessee (although WLFL in Raleigh
had it for a short time in the '80s or early '90s).

Which makes me wonder: why Nick Clooney (George's dad)
never syndicated his show out of WKRC Cincinnati?
 
KML-224 said:
I believe Gayle King had a short-lived syndicated show of sorts. It was taped in or next to WFSB-TV (CBS) channel 3 of Hartford at Constitution Plaza.
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...wasn't WFSB also where Sally Jessy Raphael's show was based between its St. Louis and New York residences?...
 
Ultimajock said:
KML-224 said:
I believe Gayle King had a short-lived syndicated show of sorts. It was taped in or next to WFSB-TV (CBS) channel 3 of Hartford at Constitution Plaza.
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...wasn't WFSB also where Sally Jessy Raphael's show was based between its St. Louis and New York residences?...
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I though Sally was taped at WTNH CH 8 New Haven. Please correct me If i'm Wrong.
 
bpatrick said:
Gene Wood's "Anything You Can Do" (not "Whatever
You Can Do") was produced at CJOH-TV Ottawa.

The 2007 version of "Camouflage" which airs weekends
on GSN was/is produced at KCET Los Angeles.

Did anyone mention "Night Train," a '60s-era r&b show
produced at WLAC (now WTVF) Nashville?

And there was one short-lived game show back around
1967 called "Matches 'n' Mates," hosted by Art James.
It was taped at WJW Cleveland and WAGA Atlanta, both
owned by Storer. The only non-Storer stations I've found
that aired it were owned by Taft: WKRC Cincinnati and
WKYT Lexington, KY.

Someone mentioned that the Jack Narz/Gene Wood version of
"Beat The Clock" was produced at CFCF-TV Montreal.
Narz quit the show in 1972; the price of airline tickets
from LA to Montreal was eating a deep hole in his wallet
(even though the Montreal-LA tickets were less expensive).
Mark Goodson wouldn't give him a raise (and, I suspect,
didn't reimburse him for the tickets--surely Goodson had
his employees turn in expense accounts!). Wood, who had
left "Anything You Can Do" after several contestants were
injured (the producers had assured him that all the stunts
were completely safe), then moved from announcer to host
of "Beat The Clock." Narz went on to his most successful
show, the 1973-78 version of "Concentration," taped at
Metromedia (he also did "Now You See It" on CBS in 1974-75).
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bpatrick said:
Everybody has forgotten the most famous one
of all: "Hee Haw," taped for most of its run at
WLAC (now WTVF) Nashville.

Somebody mentioned Buddy Starcher (whom I
never saw), but most of us in the South got "The
Arthur Smith Show," another country-music show,
this one taped in Charlotte, first at WBTV, then at
WSOC.

"Midwestern Hayride" and "The Paul Dixon Show"
were syndicated out of WLWT Cincinnati (I remember
"Hayride" airing in Norfolk in 1966-67, and Dixon airing
in Tampa in 1973, just before he died). Bob Braun had
a chance to put his show into national syndication but he
didn't want to give up the use of local and regional talent,
so his show was seen mostly in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana,
West Virginia, and Tennessee (although WLFL in Raleigh
had it for a short time in the '80s or early '90s).

Which makes me wonder: why Nick Clooney (George's dad)
never syndicated his show out of WKRC Cincinnati?
Click to expand...

By the mid-seventies the last remaining show produced at Crosley Square, Bob Braun began a regional syndication beyond the old Avco network. Stations included WTTV Bloomington/Indianapolis, WDRB Louisville, WLEX Lexington, WSAZ Huntington and several others. Braun's show was canceled for the very reason bpatrick mentions in 1984.

Clooney may have had two markets in his early days with Taft. Didn't he have a show on WKRC and WKYT?
 
Ultimajock said:
"Hot Seat with Wally George" -- taped at KDOC/50 Anaheim.
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Actually, it's KDOC/56 in Anaheim.

"Soul Train" started out as a local show on WCIU Chicago before moving it to Hollywood (and its first home at KTTV/Metromedia) and making it national in 1971.

And add "Howard Stern" to go along with Morton Downey Jr. and Richard Bey as those shows that were taped at WWOR.

By the way, since it's not a syndicated show, the new Declare Yourself PSA starring Jessica Alba and Hayden Panettiere (the "muzzler" one) was done at Los Angeles ethnic station KSCI, according to the credits
 
johnnya2k6 said:
Ultimajock said:
"Hot Seat with Wally George" -- taped at KDOC/50 Anaheim.
Click to expand...
Actually, it's KDOC/56 in Anaheim.

"Soul Train" started out as a local show on WCIU Chicago before moving it to Hollywood (and its first home at KTTV/Metromedia) and making it national in 1971.

And add "Howard Stern" to go along with Morton Downey Jr. and Richard Bey among the shows taped at WWOR.

By the way, since it's not a syndicated show, the new Declare Yourself PSA starring Jessica Alba and Hayden Panettiere (the "muzzler" one) was done at Los Angeles ethnic station KSCI, according to the credits
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Ultimajock said:
"Hot Seat with Wally George" -- taped at KDOC/50 Anaheim.
Click to expand...
Actually, it's KDOC/56 in Anaheim.

"Soul Train" started out as a local show on WCIU Chicago before moving it to Hollywood (and its first home at KTTV/Metromedia) and making it national in 1971.

And add "Howard Stern" to go along with Morton Downey Jr. and Richard Bey among the shows taped at WWOR.

By the way, since it's not a syndicated show, the new Declare Yourself PSA starring Jessica Alba and Hayden Panettiere (the "muzzler" one) was done at Los Angeles ethnic station KSCI, according to the credits.
 
radiorob2.0 said:
bpatrick said:
Everybody has forgotten the most famous one
of all: "Hee Haw," taped for most of its run at
WLAC (now WTVF) Nashville.

Somebody mentioned Buddy Starcher (whom I
never saw), but most of us in the South got "The
Arthur Smith Show," another country-music show,
this one taped in Charlotte, first at WBTV, then at
WSOC.

"Midwestern Hayride" and "The Paul Dixon Show"
were syndicated out of WLWT Cincinnati (I remember
"Hayride" airing in Norfolk in 1966-67, and Dixon airing
in Tampa in 1973, just before he died). Bob Braun had
a chance to put his show into national syndication but he
didn't want to give up the use of local and regional talent,
so his show was seen mostly in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana,
West Virginia, and Tennessee (although WLFL in Raleigh
had it for a short time in the '80s or early '90s).

Which makes me wonder: why Nick Clooney (George's dad)
never syndicated his show out of WKRC Cincinnati?
Click to expand...

By the mid-seventies the last remaining show produced at Crosley Square, Bob Braun began a regional syndication beyond the old Avco network. Stations included WTTV Bloomington/Indianapolis, WDRB Louisville, WLEX Lexington, WSAZ Huntington and several others. Braun's show was canceled for the very reason bpatrick mentions in 1984.

Clooney may have had two markets in his early days with Taft. Didn't he have a show on WKRC and WKYT?
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Clooney had a dance-party show that followed "American Bandstand"
on Saturdays in the '60s; I think that aired in both Cincinnati and Lexington.
But I don't recall his '70s talk show (on which George often appeared during
school breaks) airing outside Cincinnati; by that time Taft no longer owned
WKYT. We had a Taft-owned station in Birmingham in those days, WBRC,
but they never carried Clooney, just "Money Maze," which was an ABC show.
 
Matt Smith said:
There's a nice one called "The Daily Buzz" produced live and uplinked every morning out of Orlando, FL.

[url]http://www.dailybuzz.tv [/url]

Later....
Matt Smith
WGSR-TV
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The Daily Buzz is a great show... love it! BUt its not currently on in the market where I am.

I know The Daily Buzz was produced at the Orlando affiliate that carried it, but I thought they mvoed to their own facility? I could be wrong...
 
KML-224 said:
I believe Gayle King had a short-lived syndicated show of sorts. It was taped in or next to WFSB-TV (CBS) channel 3 of Hartford at Constitution Plaza. Gayle, of course, is famous nationally because of Oprah. We remembered her as an anchor and a features reporter with channel 3 from 1981 to 1999.

NOTE: WFSB-TV/DT now has their studios near I-91 in Rocky Hill, CT, to the south of Hartford.
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It was taped in a building across the courtyard, at #10 Constitution Plaza... WFSB-TV is at #3. I met Gayle at the studios one day in Middle school, right before the 5pm news and got to watch the 90 minutes of newscasts with Al, Denise, Dennis and Gayle from behind the cameras.

i would've been able to see the talk show set across the courtyard but it was closed and locked up that day, as they weren't taping.
 
And here's yet ANOTHER show WWOR called home in the early '90s along with Morton Downey Jr., Howard Stern, and Richard Bey: "Everyday with Joan Lunden"!
 
I'm not sure if the entire series was produced there,
but Justin Wilson's cooking shows were originally produced
at the studios of the Mississippi ETV network.

And the wraparounds with Mary Lou Metzger on PBS's
broadcasts of Lawrence Welk are produced at the Oklahoma
educational television network, if I'm correct. (Welk himself
had a local show on KTLA before moving to ABC in 1955.
He continued to produce his shows at ABC after going into
syndication, until the late '70s when he moved to CBS for
a time. That is just a parenthetical note.)
 
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